Deathly Hallows:Ariana Dumbledore

[sarita]

No: HPFGUIDX 182005

"floribelole" wrote:
> Was Ariana raped?


Personally, I tend to think she was. But certain points with this
statement of an opinion need clarification:

1) I'm sure the point in the book was *meant* to be ambigious, and JKR
will/can never ever say otherwise, as people would have a real big
problem of such things being officially aluded to in a book for (also)
children. JKR doesn't necessarily have a *clear* picture of what
actually happened, either. (But I think *she* does.)

2) I think there are plenty of ways for the attack to be sexual in
nature without any penetration or at least actual intercourse. Therefore:

3) It makes no difference how young she was or how young the boys
were. These things (= young, pre-teenish or teen boys attacking a
younger girl in some way sexual) have happened, and they've been
written about in the papers but they're hushed up pretty fast. People
can be cruel. Young people, too.


I have no problem with people reading this as violence without sexual
connotations, but I hope we can all agree to disagree. I don't think
anyone is more right, and certainly JKR will most probably never shed
light on this.

Sarita